The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-08 00:00:00

Annual Register fir 1828 we find—":Of this improvement in the state of the coun tr y t he Association t - ok credit to it self, and it was entitled to do so. The Irishman might be brought so to conduct himself by moral influence, and that the Association possessed, but it was not the direction which big feelings and actions would naturally take of themselves; ac 'cordingly the peasants of the soutleinstead of falling quietly back into the reeks of society,continued to assemble in regular bodies of horse and that, in number from 500 to 2,000 : O'Connell had licciarcd at the Munster meeting, that there were serve arms in Tipperary, which be wouhl make the peasantry gise up—an engagement which he subsequently proved unwilling or unable to fulfil ; and he had stated at the Clare election ay:l-Tut:is of the diseased state ofahe couetry. These military oeseinhlages could have but one object (not specified) : ail reai,mable men asked, Why this display of military IA ce phy there marchings in military array--and what was the a er;;ority which directed the application of funds so appro priated ? It was Hunger, " eldest and strongest of the Pas si• ;" it as a convictien that their landlords were insensate, were ,nsetiable, \V hat reduction could be expected of mort gagors, and still more of life-tenants, so universal in Irelaed, the interest and insurance of whose debts had been vii toady enhanced f.om 12 per cent. to 20? The ejectments were at once gratuitous and irreparable : whatever the succeeding tenant might p-omise, he could not with such prices pay more rent than they had paid : then came the bitter question, Impius hTe tern culta novella miles habebit ? Barbares has segctcs ? En quo Discordiu cives • Pertiuxit miseros, en queis consevimus agros ? The present state of things c:osely resembles that in 1827 and 1828. The greet increase of police fore', the provisions of the bill of 1:1 4 , amounting neatly to a state of siege, or martial Lori Mulgreve's sympathy, no trifle there, O'Connell's punet+tai rood f4ith, base as yet prevented an outt,r,ak ; but Lewd Denueghen re stated very lately, that a me,Aing, of eighteen magistrates was hold:ng in that same Tipperary, that armed parties were teaversing the country. The simple fact was, that corn being cheap on the continent, the :nett:bents expressed their fears that our own harvest was a failure ; mice; rose., the duty fell, the foreign corn came in by the ge:clueted scale, which adjusts supply . to any thing rather than demand, the ever srogume anticipation of god drys was excited—so easily do th e optics of the desparate ex aggerate a glimmering of hope—the farmers withheld their torn, though (a least in a I, rge market town lat acquainted with) it was repeatedly a Ivertised for ; the papers saia wheat would rise to 60 shillings per leneel,—it fell to 27. Lo: d Donoughenre mentioned the recent case of " John Madov, an industrious rain, who came regularly to Tipperary for the pur;ose of selling corn ; he took notes from the pur. cha-ere, payable after the harvest, hut the way they have paid hint has been by murdering him." The wretches could not pay. One had hoped that the London I.,•gislature would have seen tho necessity of equalizing the pressure of various tax , ...!; lent is is certain that, in 1836, the estimate for the Ordnance survey wee reduced 5,000/. ; also that they would encourage investigation as to the cause of violence, but no criminal re turn 3 can be obtained higher than 1826; also that they would faclitate the calculation of corn-rents, but there are no corn insuecters, and ao authentic averages. Ia dealing with the Irish. a great respect to their territorial rights as natives seould be, if not the statute, yet the un written law of custom and honour. As a general principle, the land belongs to the tenant so long as he pays the tax. If the prices are to vary, the rent should vary with them. The subject is at first sight complicated, yet it would appear that the relative values and cost of different sorts of grain being well known, they may safely be reduced to the standard of wheat only : such corn-rents aro very simple : the coloni par have preserved their own solvency and the wealth of their laodlords, century after century. I venture to fi!liggost, the easiest plan in many cases would be, to con sider the present rent as adapted to the prices of 1829- 30, answering to Bs. per bushel in England, which was called the pivot price (I), to let one half of the rent be still payable in money, to consider the other half as the quan tity of ,cheat which that moiety would have bought in the above-mentioned years, and for that moiety substitute the money value of the same quantity of wheat at the price of the day. But it would be far easier to open the ports, and lock up the Bank parlour, and so reach the seat of the complaint, the unde maluni of society, than to induce gentlemen to grant such leases. Turn we to brighter hopes. Vi c t or i a , cherished, precious being ! May she accomplish the heroic desires of her royal father, and not countenance the oppressors, but the de fenders ! The counsellors of the monarch, whose wisdom is still proverbial in the East, bowed before his youthful heir, and said—" If thou wilt be the servant of this people, and wilt serve them, and give them good words, they shall be thy servants for ever." He, on the contrary, preferred military valour, believed in the efficacy of compulsion, the facility of throwing dust in the people's eyes. Perhaps he recorded his contempt of " shop-keepers, and that sort of persons," or thought the grand strategic problem was to cut off the supplies, and bring the greatest force to bear on the weakest point. The conseq uences —b u t our h ear t s re j e ct these fears: her Majesty would not ow e t o th e f org iveness of the Irish what she might claim by the justest title. Certainly, to kneel at a widow's couch is a humiliation for a Queen ; to dress a festering inveterate wound has something menial, some thing even sordid ; whoever freely undertakes the cause of the wretched, and perseveres, will be made to feel the burthen ; her Court may be less brilliant, her adversaries richer and wittier, there may be flights of inuendoes and caricatures; yet, if there is truth in the records of the past, or in our future hopes, we can promise her a perpetuity of the happiness she enjoys, a crown of amaranth, eternal youthfulness of mind, wisdom to rule, strength to save, "goodness without effort, greetnsss—without a foe." To believe in the natural equality of . mankind is wisdom, but it ca nnot be d ou bt e d th a t j us t princes, who have never despised the poor, but rather thought it a happiness and an honour to serve them, will be conspicuously blessed. I have the honour. &c. H. C. PUBLIC POLITICAL MEETING. (From the Coventry Herald.) A public meeting, was held in the County Hall, on Wednes day, for the purpose of establishing " a Political Union, Lased upon Universal Suffrage." It having been announced that the chair would be taken at eleven o'clock, and that Muutz, Hadley, and Douglas," of Birmingham, would at tead, a numerous meeting was expected. At eleven o'clock, however, and even up to half-past, very few persons were pre sent. Just after twelve o'clock Mr. G. Edmonds, Mr. tiluutz. Mr. Hadley, and Mr. Douglas appeared, and soon after tb' Hall was three parts filled. Mr. D. BUCKNEY proposed that Mr. W. Mayo do take the ckair. Mr. MAYO expressed some reluctance, but on the sense o: the meeting being taken, eventually complied Mr. U. BucKNEY then rose to move the first resolution, He sand the meeting had been called in consequence of the re. sent declaration of Lord John Ressell against furthering the esiab of Reform beyond the point it had already reached, by refusing to give his assent to the Extension of the Suffrage anti Vote by Ballot. That declaration had astonished all the real Radicals of the kingdom, who were now determined to re sist, Mikistera. lie was happy to see around him some of the most distinguished men of Birmingham, who had attended the meeting fur the purpose of assisting and encouraging Oilmen of Coventry to do their duty at this important crisis. The present Ministers were elevated to office by the Reformers, and now that they thought themselves secure they kicked the Reormers from their presence. This was the situation in which the Radical, were now placed, and the treatment which they were now called on to resist. Unless the present Ministry were immediately removed from office, there was no chance for the people. He contended that whatever had been done in the shape of Reform, there had been nothing done yet to reach the real condition of the people. The Whigs and the Tories were playing the game of each other; both were pro fessing patriotism, but both seeking plunder. He would play off one- fac:ion against the other ; the people had the power of expelling the present Ministry from office, and he hoped they would do so; as to the Tories he feared nothing from theta. It was only by the support of the Irish Members and O'Con nell dint the 'Whigs were able to retain office; and as to Mr. O'Connell, he was glad that the time had arrived when the dujcity and the political black-leggism of that gentleman were seen through by the Reformers. Me. O'Connell never went into any discussion on the condition of the Irish poor except it was to serve his own party purposes, and he denied that he was thu friend of the Irish people. There was a greet deal of talk about education ; but the people waned first to have their backs eothed and their bellies filled. He should therefere say, give the people their political rights, and then if they did not improve their own condition it was their own fault. Mr. Buckney concluded by moving as the first resolution—" That this meeting having lost all confidence in the present Govern ment, has Ito longer any wish for their continuance in office." Mr. Rustteos seconded the resolution. Mr. HADLEY said, he had strong feelings on the subject of the r solution, and if the meeting would permit him, althoussh h.. did not wish to intrude himself upon their attention, he would offer It tlf a-dozen sentences upon it. He thought it hi gh tin.e that the people were brought to their senses. The higs had now teen in ot7see seven years, and great exer tions had been matte to place them there. He believed he had dote something towards it himself, and he hoped God would forgive hint for if. Ile had hoped at one time, howevcr, that they would have acted on the principles they professed ; and especially when the late King died, and some powerful impe diments were removed, he expected they would have carried out their profs scions of principle, and have given to the people political and relit pus libel ty. Those hopes and expeetatiens however, were completely at at end, and the ques'ion now sew :, would the people still stick to the Whigs, or would they unite and resist them? Fur his part he weuld re silt them ; tut it was only by the people being united for that purpose, that the people would do anythine ; and though Mr. O'Con nell's conduct had Leen denounced, he must say that he should like to have Mr. O'Connell with them, if he would advocate British as well as Irish interests. Of Lord John Russell's declaration he confessed he heard with joy; there was nothing like as open foe. That declaration of Lord John showed at oece what mettle. he was mode of; and let it be remembered also, that it was not the declaration of an individual, but of the whole Ministry. After this it would be delusion to expect anything from them. He would say to the men of Coventry, that until they had a voice in electing those who were to make laws affecting their lives and property, their interests would !lever be properly secured. Containing as Coventry did, a wait body of intelligent men, it became them to demand a faro in the Legislature o f th e coun t r y. Mr, 0. EDMONDS said, he was not an entire stranger to .( 1 4nuntry. It was now pretty near twenty years since the Renee me of Coventry held a meeting on Grey Friars' Green. ta 'protest against the Manchester massacre, when ate was present; He had no doubt that that meeting made some impression on the Government of that day ; and he hoped the oressnt could operate equally on the Ministry of this day. He had suppoi ted the \Vhigs, but he c .uld do so no longer; he hid hoped that on the commencement of a new reign they would have done something for the people ; but they had given evidence that nothing of the kind was now to be expected from them. When he heard so much of the Queen, he could not but reflect that there was a people also, ma le by the semi God and suscet tibie of the same feelings as the Quo n ; and looking upcn the people with the know- Isdge that they were calobie of enduring happiness and suf fering upon the same principle as the Queen was, he consi dered that the promotion of the people's happiness was the first duty of Government. He did not agree in all which his friend on the left (Mr. Buckney) had said against Mr. O'Connell; he waa not quite willing to condemn him yet. Mr. O'Donnell was the professed f, lend of Ireland, and he looked at English affairs through Irish grievances ; those were the spectacles through which he viewed us. lie recol lected, however, that not a very long time ago Mr. O'Connell attended a meeting at the Birmingham Town Hall, when he named a list of measures which bad been brought forward by the Whigs, and, as he said, they were successively cushion ed. Mr. O'Connell had again recently told the men of Bir mingham that they had been cheated and humbauged by the Whigs. He ( Mr. Edmonds) still believed, however, that there were many honest \Vhigs in the country whom he could not include in the observations which he applied to the Ministry, and to such he would say come out and join the Where were the friends of the Ministry in Coven try ? Why were they not at that mcering ? He believed that their absence might be attributed to that sickness at heart which arose from hope deferred. If the Whigs acre to grant all the measures which they had ever proposed, they would fall short of the wants of the people. He was woo hi died that Mr. O'Connell should adhere to the Ministry rasrely for the sake of retaining Lord Mulgrave in Ireland - . Lord Mulgrave might die or leave office any day, and he would still leave the principles of misgovernment in Ireland un touched If it could be shown that the government of Lord Mulgrave had given to the poor of Ireland a single extra po tatoe he would say something to it ; but it had not. Mr. O'Con nell might go on talking upon the abstract question of Irish Title s for ever; but until he gave the miliions their rights, all such talk we; useless. Those rights he believed would never be obtained under the present system of representation, for he was convinced that until the people retureed paid agents to Parliament they would never have their rights and interests well attended to. He hoped therefore that the peo ple of Coventry would think on this great subject, which was about to be brought before them ; he had been the advocate of Universal Suffrage for twenty-five years, and had always found it opposed bath by Whigs and Tories, but it was stid dear to hint. As had been observed by Mr. Hetherington, he wanted to see working men sent to Parliament; let a man go into Pari:amant with his apron on, and he would frighten the Lords and the Aristocrats away in a moment. If the interests of Lite people had been well attended to, there would never have been twenty millions granted, not for the emancipation of the slaves, but to create a good fat job for Commissioners. Of that twenty millions ho believed that one single Member of the House of Conn - nous, Mr. Gladstone, had pocketed one hundred thousand pounds. The interest of that twenty mil lions alone would have given one-fourth more of the comforts of life to all the poor in the workhouses of this country for ever. But while this twenty millions was given for the emancipation of the slaves, they were, in fact, worse off than ever. After such acts as these, he would say, " Don't be humbugged by the \Vhig Ministry any longer." To uso Ito expression of the Scripture, he would say, " There shall be no peace for the wicked." He would turn out one Ministry after another every day, till he found one which would be honest to the people. But he supposed it would be said the Tories must come in. He begged of them to be frightened by this bugaboo about the Tories no longer. The people could turn out W lugs and Tories too, one after another ; and until they did so, and ob tained a Ministry of their own choice, they would never have the benefits of good government, The first resolution was then put and carried, Mr. W. TAUNTON rose to propose the next resolution, which asserted the right of the people to Universal Suffrage, Short Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot, Mr. Taunt in then spoke at some length, and contended that as the eights of all men were equal by nature, the civil rights of mankind ought to secure their natural rights. He then addressed himself to the subject of education, and contended that ignorance was not confined to the producers of wealth. He then spoke of the debt, and said that the revenues of the country had been spent by the few to the injury of the many ; he also adverted to the disputes in Canada, and condemned the conduct of the Government. He next urged the right of every man to choose his Representatives in Parliament, and read a state ment of the nature of the constituency and the present consti tution of Parliament, calling then upon the people to come forward and turn out the factions. He afterwards descanted on the Poor Law ; urged the abolition of the property quali cat;on for Members of Parliament; condemned the Ballot un less preceded by Universal Suffrage ; rejoiced at the recent declaration of Lord John Russell, and said he had hard work to refrain from getting intoxicated when he heard of it. Mr. T. concluded a long and on the whole a good speech, by re commending the people to agitate till they got their rights. Mr. CHARLES EYRE seconded the above resolution. Mr. Muserz approved of the resolution, so far as it went, but begged to move an addition to it that it include wages of attendance for Members of Parliament. Men would never work for pleasure so well as they would work for pay, and he believed that Ballot and Universal Suffrage would do little good without wages of attendance. He considered that the franchise ought to be extended to all who were taxed, or else that the taxes ought to be confined to those only who were represented, and he thought the working classes would care little which of these two changes they had.—(Mr. Buckney dissented.) He (Mr. Muntz) was an advocate for Short Parliaments, wages of attendance, Universal Suit, age, and the Ballot, but he did not agree with those gentlemen who opposed the Ballot unless accompanied by Universal Suffrage. He thought they ought to go for all ; but if in the meantime the Ballot could be obtained, it would operate well, even with the present constituency, and the lower classes.—( Murmur of dis approbation.) Mr. Muntz begged to correct himself, and would say the industrious classes. He hoped to see the day when good government would be obtained, and when the people would be well employed, well fed, and well clothed. Good government, however, could only be secured by agita tion out of doors, and the union of the people. Mr. DOUGLAS then spoke, and after alluding to the voila minousness of the resolution, said, he thought it would be incom plate unless it inclnded the division of the country into Par liamentary districts. So long as Tamworth, fur instance, with its small population, sent two Representatives, the same as Birmingham with its large population, it would be impossible to have a fair representation. Mr. Douglas then advocated Universal Suffrage, by a variety of arguments ; first on the ground of principle, hecause there was no sufficient reason for ascribing superior fitness or better qualification to the oc cupier of a house of a certain rent, and in the next place, be cause Universal Suffrage was a measure which commanded the sympathies of the great body of the people. As to edu cation, he thought it was absurd to hold that those who gave evidence every day of their capacity to conduct their own affairs and make their own bargains with good sense arid pro priety, were unfit to have a voice in choosing their Represen tatives in Parliament. Mr. Douglas also supported the pro position in favour of having paid Representatives, on the ground that no merchant could afford time to devote to the duties of a M tuber of Parliament. He recommended the people to unite for the enforcement of their rights. Let them tight with a strong moral force, and their enemies would then be certain that they possessed - physical force if required. A Political Union would not require much to support it; the members of that in Birmingham paid Gd. a quarter, and surely that would be sufficient for one in Coventry. After some further observations, the resolution was put and carried, I with the addition of wages of attendance proposed by Mr. Muntz. Mr. R. BAMPTON then moved a vote of thanks to the Gen tlemen of Birmingham for their attendance at the Meeting. Mr. JOSEPH BRADLEY seconded the motion, which was put and carried. Mr. MENTZ returned thanks, after which he, in company I,vitli Messrs. Hadley, Edmonds, and Douglas, left the flail. Mr. JOSEPH TAILOR condemned the manner in which Mr. O'Connell had been censured by some of the speakers, and and contended that he had been used ill by the English people. Mr. Taylor afterw :rds proposed the following Gentlemen as a Provisional Committee, to prepare riles and regulations for the Coventry Political Union : —Mr. John Turner, Mr. T. W. Gill, M:. Mayo, Mr. Backney, Mr. John R,binson, Mr. Ro bert Bampton, Mr. Joseph Bradley, Mr. C. Eyre, Mr. W. Taunton, Mr. John Warden, Mr. James Peters, and Mr. Joseph Rushton. . The same having been agreed to, the Chairman left the Chair, which was then taken by Mr. R. HAMPTON. Mr. D. BECKNF.Y then proposed the thanks of the Meeting to Mr. Mayo for his impartial conduct in the Chair. Mr. MAYO returned thanks, and the Meeting dissolved.- • Since our last, several examinations of the prisoners in custody at Halstead for the fires in that neighbourhood have taken place, and by the indefatigable exertions of the Magistracy, their clerk, and the po;ice, we understand a yo . luminous body of cvidet:ce has been collected, tending to velope the perpetrators of nearly all the wanton destruction of property. As the inquiry proceeds, the surprise increases that neither the set:se of principle nor the temptation of the large sums off. red by way of reward operated as an induce ment for the mmy who, it now appears, were aware of the guilty parties to come forward, and by furthering the ends of justice, st , iy at an early period the hands of the incendiaries. Durin7, an examination on Tu: sday, a young woman, named Charlotte Amer, of Notlev, was committed for perjury. A month pr.,11:11,1y elai•se before the committal of Fl teller ar,d Itayn,r, additional evidence almost daily traniA:ing.— Citelnixf rd Chronicle. In the beginning of last week a disgraceful scene took place during the ceremony of an interment in the churchyard in the W,:terloo. road. As the clergyman was reading the burial service over the body of a man nicknamed " Glass Eyes " well knowa in Lambeth, a number of low vagabonds, chiefly journeymen butchers, got over th e pa lli sa d es , and, ap proaching the grave, interrupted the solemnity of the occasion by indecent conduct. One of the fellow s , trking a shilling from his pocket, flung it into the grave, exclaiming at the same time—" There, Glass Eyes, is a shilling for you; it w,ll buy a dinner for you in the other world." This the fel low followed up by shovelling the earth into the grave, in which he was assisted by several others, who kept throwing the earth at each ether. The clergyman was compelled to quit tie ground before the completion of the service, and the bl,lck guards mustered in such numbers that the authority of the beadles was of no avail, and the police were called in to put a stop to the scene. Unfortunately, however, the ringleaders escaped on seeing. the policemen. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 8. 1838 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS• On Menday last we. stated that we di l not believe that the revolt either was or could become general through out Canada, or that there was any doubt as t ) the result of the contest so wantonly commenced by the Papineau party cn the banks of the rivA. Richelieu. The aceouits re ceived f7-on that colony daring the past wes.l-, will enable eur readers to determine between the d. greo of reliance to be placed on our pr Aicfons, anti that to be placed oo the bold iis, , ertions of the spakers of the Crown and Anchor meeting. The ease, with which the attempt of Mr. INl'Kenzie has been put down in Upper Canada sufficiently proves that the d:scontented form neither a large nor for midable portion of the population of that province. An apparently well-inlOrmed correspoinlynt of the Standard states that he has every reason to believe that MiKenzie and his followers were never within two miles of Toronto.; ...... and that from the best informw,tion he ein collect, their numbers did not exceed 700 men. Be this as it may, they were put do n not by troops (for there were eme in the province), but by the loyal inhabitants t herr:salves. The speakers at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, and their or rens, speak as if the contest were solely be tween the Canadians and the Gsvernment. We have stated, over and over again, that were Great Britain to give up the colony to-morrow, this would only be abandon ing it to all the horrors of civil war. It is justly observed by the correspondent of the Standard, that " the dispute is not between the French Canadians and the officials, but between the former and the British settlers, not in Lower Canada only; but in ell the North American colonies." A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the Rev. David Brown, a clergyman who has resided in Lower Ca nada for the last five years, states that the object of the French Canadians " is to drive every British subject from the country, and set up a French democracy." " The liabilans," he says, " are a quiet and inoffensive paople ; but at the same time very ignorant, credulous, and easily excited ;" and in corroboraton of what we have advanced as to the absurdity of suppesine that yielding to the Ft ouch Canadians would put an end to hostilities, he observes : " Mr. Hume aryl Sir William Molesworth, in their speeches, appear to hase forgotten that there is in LOwe: Canada 150 000 of the British population, resolved to use every effort to maintain the connection of that colony with the parent state, and ia just subordination to its authority; and they are pledged to each other, and to their fellow-subjects throughout the mph e, to endeavour, by constitutional means, to obtain a redreFs of all real grievances that exist in Lower Canada; that is, to obtain for her Majesty's subjects, of British and Irish origin, equal rights and privileges with those of French ori g in, a fair and reasonable proportion of the representation in the Provincial Assembly." 'rite Leeds Mercury would cut the matter short by compensating all who hare taken up arms in Canada for the Queen to the last farthing, if necessary; and as in the acknowledgment of Canadian independence the inhabi tants of Upper Canada, which is almost entirely settled by British, and desirous to continue its connection with England, .would then have no communication with the mother country or the sea, except through the territories of independent republics, our Leeds Contemporasy would remove this difficulty by declaring Upper Canada also in dependent—an event which must come in the course of a few years. Our Contemporary is here led away by the analogy of the war with the old colonies. On that occa sion the great body of the people took the side of indepsn deuce, and the adherents of Great Britain were almost exclusively the rich proprietors and the officials. These men for the most part abandoned the country, and the difficulty with regard to them consisted merely in adjusting the compensation to be afforded to them. But this is a contest between French and English, and the Government cannot terminate it. A civil war would bo c cried on if every British sol dier were withdrawn from the province ; and what compen sation can ke afforded for the lives lost in so sanguinary a warfare as must ensue ? We are by no means enamoured of the connection between this country and Canada, which has been productive of more advantage to the French Canadians than to ourselves. In the comparatively short period which has elapsed since the conquest, they have in creased in number from 70,000 to upwards of 500,000 ; anti during ail that period we have been at a large expense on their account, from which the only advantage we have derived has been the importation of bad timber from them, to the exclusion of good timber from the Baltic. We do not see the necessity of making sacrifices for no other ob ject than to obtain a pretext for provisioning the younger sorts and brothers of the aristocracy, anti finding employ ment for ship-owners. But we do not see that it would ba either wise or honourable were the Government at once to succumb to Papineau and his associates, and to abandon the two provinces to a sanguinary and desolating civil war. In fact, the wisdom of attempting at once to put down the revolt is proyed by the result. Those who are best acquainted with the Canadians deem the danger from the insurrection to be now in a great measure over. Had it obtained consistency, and the habitans generally been drawn into it, the result might have been a protracted civil war. One circumstance is deserving of particular atten tion in considering this revolt—the Catholic clergy have without an exception afforded the best services. to the Go vernment in preserving the people in their allee ta nee,. or in bringing them back to a sense of their duty in case of their having taken up arms. This example ought not to be without its effect cn us. But how is it that the clew are so well disposed towards this country? Mr. M'Greg?r states in his excellent work on British America, that " in Lower Canada the Catholic religion is established on a constitutional foundation, as fully protected in all its immu nities and privileges as that of the Church of England. All the revenues from lands enjoyed under the Government of France, and the twenty-sixth part of the grain only raised on the farina cultivated by Catholics, are secured by law to their Church." He adds, that " the revenues a rising (emu lands and the tithes are found fully adequate to support thu Catholic clergy. The incomes of the cures 209 in number, average from 2001. to 300/. per annum, which enables them, in so elesep a country as Canada, to live respsctably , and to exercise a very liberal share of benevolence and licspitality." This is not a state of things to be lightly renounced, Had Protestant Clergymen been put in the receipt of all those revenues a sinecure Church would have been thereby created. In any dispute with the Government of this country the sinecure Protestant clergy would of course have been ageiest the people flow whom they derived their incomes ; but it is not so certain that the cures would have been 50 anxious to maintain their flocks in allegiance to t his country. This lesson ought not to be thrown away, An established clergy iney be necessary ; but to establish a clergy for a small fraction of the population, leaving the people properly so called to pay their own clergy in ad , dition to the sinecure clergy, cannot be absolute wisdom. The clergy are excellent aids to Government ; but then it is only the clergy of the people who can furnish im portant aid.—/Tforning Chronicle. - The falling off is the annual amount of the revenue to the extent of nearly two millions sterling. as compared with the former year, is a fact affording serious matter for public reflection. If an advance in the revenue of the firmer year as compared with that preceding it, was ex ultingly pointed to by the Government prints as a proof of returning prosperity, the great depression which marks the financial statement of the year just expi:ed may be consider 'd as " prosperity" making an Irish movement and " advancing backwards"—a movement which our Hiber ni in Chancellor of the Exchequar very well understands, if he understands nothing else among the mysteries of the ,enancial system. The principal deficiency is under the .head of " Excise"--in that alone nearly a miliionl This ,aff a o n r e d e s , of the mass of pretty strong tpeople, indication amongofthe rn reduced cireu stwhom the con sumption of exciseable articles has fallen off in that pro portion. Let it also be borne in mind that during the past year a general election took place, which alwsys gives a stimulus to tl.e circulation . of money, and encourages t h e consumption of many . exeiseable articles. Under such circum s tances the fall in the revenue is still more remarkable than it would otherwise have been. That is, indeed, a poor " prosperity" which retreats so rapidly after m eking a show of advance, and, while rejoicing ministers cry " behold our work," suddenly wheels round and" turns its back upon itsel." But the Let is, the revenue of the oast year appears more depressed than it w ou ld have been if it were not placed in contrast with a year of forced and unnatural elevation. The year 1836 was on e o f extrava gant speculation and unreal enterprise--in short, it was a miner " bubble year" to that of 1825, when an extraordi nary mania for all sorts of joint stock schemes made super ficial observers, and among others the Chan ce ll or of the Exchequer of that day, believe, as he expresse it, that " an overflowing tide of pt osp.erity was pouring its mi g hty cur rent through tile portals of a const•tutional mona-rhy." Alas ! it was a file that soon ran dry, and left th e d rip speculators gasping high and dry upon the san d " fishes out of water," The memory of its mi sc hi e f s sti ll remains in the ruins which it left behind, and the recollec tion of its follies in the soubriquet " Prosperity Robin son." So when cur present Chancellor of the Exchequer saw nothing but proofs of the exuberance o f national wealth and general prosperityin the sp ecu l at i ve ex citement of 1836, lie entitled himself to a niche in the temple of " prosperity financiers"—men who judge of the strength and depth of the commercial current by the " bubbles" on its surface. As the speculation mania of 1825 was fellowed by a tremendous crash, of whi c h . the effects were felt for years, so that of 1 836 was follo we d b y a " commercial crisis," as in gentle language it h as b een called, which has brought many a towering fortun e t o t h e ground, and crushed into utter ruin a host of sm a ll er vic tims. When the storm of reaction swept over London from the Transatlantic shores, the Chancellor of th e E x .. chcluer, like thegolden-girdled Prosperity herself, was mi:;sing. Great was the lamentation in Israel. In the sylvan: fastre-sses of Mount Trenchard he had entrenched h4us,lf. In modest obscurity he concealed a head which, if barren of financial knowledge, is yet luxuriant with the knowledge of Cambridge elections. There did he indulge in the " wood notes wild" of his poetic fancy, while the lovers of other " notes"raved about Exchequer Bills. There (lid he leave the monied world to rig:it itself while he did not forget to take the salary for proving how useless was the eifice of r. minister of finance The resu't of all this is now betleta us, in the impoverished state of the rev,-nue. We have said that the deficiency of one million nearly under the the head of excise, strongly marks the state of discomfort and poverty of the, people. But a falling off to the amount of nearly 900,0001. in the customs, shows a depression in foreien trade as serious as it is sudden. To be sure the customs, unlike the excise, though exhibiting so great a loss upon the whole year, show an increase upon the quarter, which we hope will go on ; fur if it does not, even without a civil war in Canada upon our hands, the national debt stands a chance of being increased rather titan dimin'shed,l unless new taxes be imposed. In such a state of affa'rs we fear that it will be a long time before the Whigs re deem their pledge of repealing that war impost, the window tax. We should think the Chancellor of the Exchequer would like to have the stampduties on newspapers replaced, fur the falling off in the stamp revenue alone during the year amounts to upwards of 318,000/. The whole defi ciency of revenue upon the year would have been consider ably beyond two millions, if it had not been for the in rease upon repayments of money advanced for public works, which repayments exceed those of the former year by nearly '250,0001. Would it not be well if England had 1 ill its coffers at present that million of money, or perhaps more, which Lord Palmerston Inns flung away upon the buccaneering war in Spain, where Great Britain has been sadly despoiled of character and glory as well as of solid gold?—Morning The past year has borne away an aged Monarch, and brought a youthful Queen, and the Cabinet which served the one is now serving the other. But as in the men, so with the Monarch, there is in reality no change, except so far as the substitution of youth, with its probable endu rance, for advanced life, with its certain brevity, makes the change for the worse. The bright prospects which opened upon the country, in the ascension of a simple-hearted, unso phisticated, mother-instructed ehild,have been sadly darkened by the selfish and graspin g policy which marks the morning of her reign. Bribery and secret influence have ever been the agencies of Whig domination. Despising the people, except when party purposes have led them to make expe riments upon their credulity, by affecting a common identity of objects, their main effort has been to secure the coun tenance of the Crown by crowding its coffers. Tyran nical and feudatory in their principles—unscrupulous even to rebellion when Royal obstinacy could only be made to bend, as sanguinary violence howled around its Courts, the Whigs have had in all times the sagacity to perceive that their attainment and tenure of power de pended upon the successsul bestowment of garters, titles, and place. To restrict our remarks to a period when indi vidual recollection jail-lefts increasing interest to facts, whet wa s their conduct towards the Prince of Wales, from the time that his youth and station gave to his vices the apology of extravagances, to the maturer period of the Regency, when his heartless profligacy assumed the aspect of revolting crimes? What, we ask, has been their unvarying con duct, their insidious cloven-footed course ? They stop only where carnage begins, and never fail to stoop while meanness can attain what true dignity would scorn. Early perceiving that the austere virtues of George 111. presented an impassable barrier to their attainment of power, the Whigs gave full play to an imposing class of feelings, which combine yoluptuous excesses with political profli gacy. Aided by the fascinations of titled women, distin guished by the charms of conversation, and unencumbered by the restraints of modesty, the youthful Prince became the licentious deity of an infuriated and desperate sect of commingling conspirators. Even perjury itself presented no obstacle to the gratification of party ambition and men were to be found, who staked their honour in the s enate to the truth of a statement, the falsehood of which was intimately known tp themselves. The alliance of the Prince of Wales to Mrs. Fitzherbert was pro claimed as a foul artifice, as totally destitute of truth, when those who declared it to be so were witnesses of the matri monial ceremony. And this bold and false asseveration was made, as the condition of obtaining for their patron a large grant of the public money, wherewith to discharge enor mous debts, contracted in the support of the most scan dalous debaucheries, and the blackest scenes of the lowest gambling. In short, the perjury was as essential to .the relief of their own difficulties as those of their mis guided master. By this act of moral pollution the nation was pillaged of nearly half a million sterling. Scarcely a year passed away in which the debts of the Prince were not pressed upon Parliament, and when the country be came disgusted with his obscenities, and the vices of his adherents, a new and far different experiment was practised upon popular weakness. The Prince was made to act the part cf an economist, and paraded before the nation in the splendid rhetoric of Sheridan, and tla lofty solemnities of Fox, as a much-injured, noble-hearted Prince, who was re solved to live as a beggar, rather than involve himself in responsibilities he was unable to discharge. Oh, amiable delusion, which wrung another and a larger draft from the industry of au insulted and pillaged people! This turn served, the veil vr,,s uplifted, and Princely profligacy again walked forth, cheered by the smiles of faction and the fair. Carlton House was bated on corruption, and millions reared the glittering minarets of the Pavilion ; and, to meet the frightful outlay, a claim was loudly urged, in Parliament and in the Press, that th e Prince of Wales was entitled, by right and in law, to the accumulated rental arising during his minority from the Duchy of Cornwall! Mark, reader, this sing elar feet, as it illustrates the never changing duplicity of the. Whigs. Compare the conduct of the party. Patriots, and for the people, when out of office in the year 1786, they were for the Court, and against the people, in office in 1831 and in 1837. At the first named period these men contended that the Crown held these revenues in trust for the Prince of Wales, who at his i irth became Duke of Cornwall, to whorn an account must be rendered upon the attainment of his majority, and that, too, notwithstanding the large and increasing claims upon his Royal father, from a growing family. And this claim—amounting to many hundreds of thou sands of pounds—would and must have been conceded, but for the happy expedient which the droits of Admi ralty at the time presented, which enabled the Tory faction to proffer, and tho Whig faction greedily to accept, an equivalent wrung from unoffending nations and confiding merchants. It would dry up the deepest sources of patience even to glance at the almost countless instances of alternate frowning and fawning wh;eb marked the winding steps of this wily crew, from the time the " first gentleman in Europe" threw off all restraints of decency under their especial pupillage, to the time he threw them off with the most insulting mockery. For thirty years they pampered the vilest of Princes with the meanest and basest of flat tery, and for more than twelve years they polluted the bleol-streems of his being with the poisonous outpourings of malignant disappointment. The dark curtain of despair had fallen upon these prince-and people cheats for many a dreary year, when death stept in, anti gave life to their slumbering hopes ; and a confiding nation seemed to revive in the expectation that reflection had worked its appropriate repentance. The sun of freedom rose in stately splendour upon the year 1831—peace, economy, and reform beamed on its wings, and the inquiry went forth—ls there yet lonetty in public men ? Tire sequel remains to be told.— ireclay 'l', ue Sun. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PortrssiouTrt, JAN. 6.—The Sovereign transport, Lieut. Nash, Agent, arrived on Tuesday last from Bermuda, which place she left on the 12th of December, bringing horns con victs and invalids. The Admiral's fl Sir C. Paget) was flying on board the Corms, his own ship (the Cornwallis) hiving been despatched with the Rainbow, on the 26th of No vember, to B trbadoes, for troops to replace the 43d Regiment at Ilalif :x ; if troops cannot be spared at that island, the Cornwallis and Rainbow will go on to Jamaica for them. Sir Charles wculd hoist her flag in the Pearl, 20, Captain Lord c . Paget, on her expected arrival at Bermuda (she was at St. Thomas's on the atii of December), and would proceed in her to visit the West India Islands. The Racer, 16, Captain [lope, had arrived at Bermuda, but there being no orders to send her home she would wait for further instructions. The pickle schooner was also there. The Sovereign brought home as passengers, Mr. Jeffery, late Acting Purser of the Racer : Mr. Marriott, Mata of the Pickle ; Mr. Cunningham, As sistant- Surgeon, in the charge of the convicts and invalids, Licut, Thorp, of the 30th Regiment ; Mrs, Young and fa mily, of the Royal Eagineers ; Mr. M ,turin, Deputy Com missary-Genera.! and family, and Miss Lee. We regret t , l ea rn the fever, subs .fluently to the 9th of Novemba, broke out again, but not vi lently ; Mr. Wilkins, First Mate of the Coromandel convict hulk, his wife, and eldest child had, how ever, fallen victims to it. One hundred and fifty-three con victs brought home in this ship, have been transferred to the York convict ship in this harbour. Four corni;anies of Artillery—viz., Colonel \Vylde's, Major Stewart's, Colonel M'Laughlan's, and Captain Sheppard's, are ordered for service in Canada. Colonel F. Campbell is appointed to command the Artillery in that colony, aad Lieu tenant Townsend goes with him as Adjutant, The Artillery companies commanded by Majors England and Chambers are ordered to Ireland. The Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, arrived at Cork on Sunday last, and embarked the first division of the 92d Regi ment on Wednesday. The Pique, 36, was daily expected, to embark the remainder of that corps. Major-General Sir \Vm. WBean, who was on his way to take command of the Lime rick district, received orders to proceed to Cork, and take passage in the Ineoastant for Halifax, as second in command ip Canada Sir Frederick Stovin is also ordered to proceed to that country, a 3 Adjutant. General. Tlrc Dublin Evening Post awns that the 231 Fusileets, and the 71st Light Infan- try are intended for immediate embarkation for the scene of action. It is said an order has been issued from the Horse Guards cancelling all leave granted to officers belongi,lg to corps in Canada, and they are required forthwith to re-join their regiments, via New York. Extract of a letter from an Oificer of the Fair Rosamond, datel River Benin, on board the pirate prize brig Veins, of the ISzh of September I,st :—" After having been nearly a fort night in the little gig I had the ill-luck of being beat off by the Velos, with the loss of cue fine fellow (Howell), who lost his life in saving mine. At one r. , I observed a strange vessel, I was then seven miles off the land. At three I closed her so near as to be able to commence firing, The wind wcs just enough for sometimes to gain, and then lose. At ' 4.30, to our great joy, we saw the little Rosamond in full chase to cut her off, when she wore, and ran for the River Benin. At 6 30, I burnt a blue light A few minutes after the Veins commenced firing grape on my boat. I tried hard to board her on the starboard bow, when she fired a gun, by the light of which I saw she was too well prepared there. I then pushed round her stern to try the larboard quarter, aid froin the ex treme darkness, and the admirable coolness of my few men, I was nearly on b , ard before they knew where we were. The bowman of the gig was in the ect of hooking on the painter when a shower of musketry commenced; this was the time my poor fellow fell, first pushing aside 3 muskets levelled at me ; from the heavy rain that fell few of our muskets went off, or we should have 1. aid them off in their own coin. After the Velos got into the River we heard that she was prepared to make re sistance, and there being much risk in trying to cut her out in our two four-oar gigs, the Commander decided to hazard the risk of crAiing te bar, which he did, and ran alongside of her: we fired two guns, and that was to keep the pirates from jumping overboard. She is a b etutiful new brig. To complete our good fortune, we have taken a fine large four-gun brig, with only 140 slaves, in the Cameos." The intention of employing the Hastings, 74, Capt. Shiffner, in the conveyance of troops, has been altered, in consequence of her requiring a new mainmast. She has quitted the Nore, therefore, for Sheerness, where she will be paid off on the 12th inst., and re-commissioned. . The yachts Crusader, W. Howard, Esq., and the Fanny, J. Long, Esq , left Gibraltar for Malta, on the 13th of De cember. The Victory (bearing the flag of the Admiral, Superin tendent), was removed from Hardway to the moorings opposite the King's-stairs on Thursday. As the disposable seanwn of this ship arc employed in the ringing department and other wise of the Dock-yard, the removal of the Victory to her pre sent moo, ings will very much benefit that branch of her Ma jesty's service, more particularly in the winter season, when, at times, owing to bad weather, it has been known that at her former moorings every communication between that ship and the Dock-yard was entirely prevented, and consequently the assistance of her men quite lost to the yard. The Melville, 74 ( Hon. Capt. Dundas), with the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Elliott, sailed to-day for the Cape of Good Hope. She will touch at Rio Janeiro. The Wasp, 16, Hun. Commander Pelham, is detained in harbour until next week, being ordered to be fitted with a chain messenger. The Tyne, 28, Hon. Captain Townshend, was towed nut of harbour on Thursday by the Messenger steamer. She will be paid advance on Monday, and proceed to the Mediter ranean on the following day. Sailed last night the Sampson, New York packet, Captain Sturgis, having on board, as part of her cargo, 1,200 quarters of wheat, taken out of this country ; she took also as passen gers, Colonel Sir George Arthur, appointed Governor of Upper Canada, with Lieutenants West and Arthur, Aides-de- Camp; Lieutenants Jones and Cooper, of the military force in Canada, and Messrs. Windsor and Warren, of the civil service. Several other military gentlemen went out in this ship, who are intended to act on their arrival in Canada in the formation of volunteer corps, and generally as circum stances may require. Sailed this morning the Malcolm and Justina, free traders, for Madras and Bengal. APPOINTMENTS.—Licut. G. Western, to the Princess Char lotte ; Mr. W. J. W. Burney, Acting Master and Pilot, to the Electra, vice Brown ; Mr. W. L. White, Mate, and Mr. T. Coote, Midshipman, to the Brisk; Mr. J. J. Smith, Mate, and Mr. A. Murray, Additional Assistant-Surgeon of Bri tanr,ia to the Tyne; Mr. H. L. Parson, Mate of Samarang, to Electra: Dr. Booth, Additional Assistant-Surgeon, to the Britannia; Dr. T. Stratton, Assistant Surgeon to Haslar Hospital ; Mr. Elkins, Acting Purser, from Cornwallis to Racer. PROMOTION.—Mr. Mounsteven, Clerk in charge of the Brisk, is promoted to the rank of Purser. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6. —The Naval half-pay will commence bein g paid at the Dock-yard, on Monday, and be recalled on the following Tuesday and Friday. The Malabar, 74, Captain Sir William Montagu, Bart., K. C. H. , was paid off yesterday. It is expected that this ship will shortly be recommissioned. Before the Malabar quitted the Tagus, the Commander-in-Chief issued the following or der:—" The Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, begs to express to the officers and ship's company the very great satisfaction he has experienced in inspecting the Malabar ; that he considers her in the highest order of any man-of-war he has ever aeon, and quite a pattern to the ser vice."—Our Commander-hi-Chief, Admiral Lord A. Beau clerk, has also expressed his admiration of her high state of discipline. The President, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Ross, sailed J. starday for the South American station, and the Thunder, surveying vessel, for Nassau, New Providence, to finish her survey of the coast. The Messenger steam vessel, Mr. King master, arrived yesterday from Portsmouth, and the Columbia steamer, from Woolwich, —The Melville was lying at Spithead when these vessels left. The brig Espo!r, 10, was commissioned on Saturday la,t, by Lieutenant Colson Festing. Mr. Edward Little, Mate, of H. M. S. Scylla, and son of Simon Little, EA., of St. Michael's-terrace, is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. The Hercules, Captain Toup Nicholas, C. B. K. H., is expected here from the Tagus, to refit and take troops to Canada. Mr, Lawrence, son of Captain Lawrence, R,N., of Loswi thiel, is appointed to the Thunder, as Assistant Surveyor. Lieutenants W. C. Metcalf, Thomas Mallock, and D. R. Mapleton. of the Malabar, are ordered to hold them selves in readiness, in a month's time frora the paying off of that ship. Dr. Richardson, Surgeon of the Navy, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Isaac Wilson, as Physician of the Royal Naval Hospital, at Hasler. Dr. Richardson is the scientific compa nion of the adventurous explorer of the North Pole. Licut. W. K. Stephens, of the Barham, has exchanged ships with Lieut. Alexander Rothery, of the Hazard. Lieut. Smith, now commanding the Thunder, surveying vessel, will, on his arrival in the West Indies, deliver up that vessel to the Commander of the Lark, Limit. Edward Barnett, and himself assume the command of the Lark, as tender to the Thunder. In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Racehorse, Lily, and Messenger and Columbia, steam-vessels. - In Barnpoul—Alligator and Britomart. - _ POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A rough vulgar West-countryman, named John Bartlett, was on Saturday brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having aided a gang of swindlers in defrauding trades men in different parts of the City. Mr. Wicks, a partner in the house of Blackmore and Co., leather-sellei a, deposed that the prisoner called at the house, and said that he came from the house of Pearsc and Co., of Lawrence-lane, who had to execute an order for 1,000 dozens of socks, and he looked at some goods and made certain selec tions as samples, which he directed to be sent to Lawrence lane, stating that if they suited, an order to a ve, y great ex tent would be given. The goods were sent, hut were not paid for. An attempt was made afterwards to obtain a considerable quantity, and it was intimated that the samples and bulk would be paid for at the same time. It was soon ascertained that Pearce and Co. were part and parcel of an extensive gang of swindle's, who levicd contributions daily upon tradespeople all over England, and from communication received from Wood stock by the complainant it was believed that the prisoner was one of the pai triers. The prisoner had been merely employed by the firm of Pearce and Co. as a porter, and was no partner. Mr. Pearce's name was John Pearce Davis, and he (prisoner) ordered the goods in that name. Mr. Thomas G'.irPck, the housekeeper of the building in Laurence-lane, in which Pearce and Co. had a room, and carried on their business of swindling, stated that Mr. Pearce and another person called upon him, and took the room on the Bth of November, at the annual rent of 25/. They repre sented themselves as wholesale glovers and in th e f ancy li ne, and gave him a reference on a piece of paper, which, as it was laid down negligently, one of the witness's children put. into the fire. The address was somewhere in Friday -street, . and had an Esquire at the end of Witness was never paid a farthing, neither was the carpenter . who h a d b een emp l oyed to put up the shelves. The firm used to walk up and down stairs very softly, and seemed to take away things very quietly, but witness no er could succeed in finding them at home. About three weeks ago a person came up to the landing, and cried out t h a t they were a s e t o f i n f amous swindler?, and they i we re taking n honest tradesmen. Witness afterwards ascer tidhwhich appe are d t o conta i n l arge quan tities . oftal:ird nothi ng b ut pac k ages o f shav i ngs. gloves,at the c ee The Loan MAYOR—Shavings ILA up like gloves ? Witness--Yea ; and cov(r e d w i t h chamois leather. I then hawa porter MTV! with large quantities of goods to the firm, but I told them all about the concern, and, of course, he went away. There were other dup'd tradesmen in the room, but there was nothing to fix the guilt of co - partnership upon the prisoner. One tradesman produc!d a list of about fifty names, all connected with the firm of lh and Co., mad each firm ; ,retencling to carry on the partieu!ar trade in which they look out for victims. In different parts of the town and country these scoundrels are located, and they give characters to each other, by means of which th ey p l un d er extenbiyely, and with impunity. The LORD MAYOR privately advised the complainants as to the course which he considered it proper for them to adopt against the firm of Pearce and Co. Ile could not help ex pressing his asto,:ishment that men in trade would do business without having respectable references from 'heir customers ; and he discharged the prisoner, that person having given his address, and under fresh assurances that he would do all he zovld‘o aid the complainants, GUILDIIALL. A young man named Alexcvidcr Boyd, was eba-ged with having dangerously wounded Joseph Kilsby, a barman at the King's Head, Smithfield. The pattit's were together at the Coach and Horses, in AldrrFgate-street, on Wednesday right, when Kilsby, unin. cit.d, attempted to help himself to Boyd's liquor, Each had hold ~f the glass, and a struggle ensued, by endatvourin: to di - irk, and Boyd to throw the liquor in Lis face, and the cont st was ended by the breaking of the g'asi ttgalnit the eyes and nose of Kiisby. Thomars Kilsby had visited his brother in St. Btrtholotzew'N Hospital, and found him lying in a deplorable state, One eye had been totally destroyed, the nose had been laid open in frighful manner, and the other eye wee completely closed, sti that it could not he ascertained whether the sight was de s.royed or not. Remanded till the fate of Kilsby could be known. BOW-STREET. On Saturday Bet jamin 'Simpson, commonly known yrrong horse dealers by the Ontlle of Old Ben, a man attired in the garb of a groan, was placed at the bar before Mr. Minshull, citarg.. , rl with st aling 371 in money, anti a horse, the property of Mr. Juhn Mercer Bcsvil Durant, a gentleman of fortune ro• siding at No. 6. Gray's Inn. square. The defence set up was, that there was a partnership a xisting between the prisoner and Mr. Durant in matters t,f this desetil tiun, and the transactions therefore were quite regular. Th s, howe.er, w is denied by the p•osecutor, and the pri. sorer having declared his intention to reierve his defence until his trial, he was finly • ommitt,d. MARYLEBOIVE. • 01 Saturday. Mr. Charles Green, Eaton Surveyor to the Equ table Gas-light Company, appeared to an information laid by the Nlarylebone Vestry, which charged the Company with having taken up 48 square feet of pavement in Oxford-street, without previously ob,aining the permission of the said Vestry, bv which the Con parry were liable to a penalty rot exceeding 10'. hot less than 51. On the part of the defendants an objet... torn was made to the wording of the information which 'Alt.. SHUTT considered fatal.—Case dismissed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday the sitting Magistrates were called upcn to settle a charge of assault made by Jonathan Griggs, shopman to W. Sprigs, agai:st one Solomon Biggs. The plaintiff is a rising genius, and the eeendant, full 60, very deaf, half blind, and had a wooden leg. It appeared that while the complainant was engaged in serving a customer with a pennyworth of patent starch, the old gentlerm n popped into the shop and demanded two bundles of vood, to which lie sail 11.: was entitled. On being re ferred to the .account betwixt Spriggs and Higgs, he became vi,,lent, and lowering his umbrella fenced the complainant into a corner, finally capsizing him into the tieacle-tub by a blow on his head, The defendant began his defence by admitting there was a sort of running account between the Higgses and Spriggses. The day on w hich the alleged assault took place he sent for a shillingsworth of wood, which came in due course. Had I sent for a penny bundle, said Mr. Higgs, rising in wrath, I should have expected but one, but sending as I did for a shil lingsworth, I was justly entitled to fourteen bundles to the dozen. I counted the number myself —my wife and family are witnesses to the fact ; and I solemnly assure your Worship there were but twelve bundles. Now there is not a trades man in Landon, nay, in Great Britain, who would not have sent 14 for the shilling. I instantly took my hat and um brella with the determination of obtaining the other two bundles, or of entering my firm resistance against the fraud. I went into the shop and asked for the two bundles, and giving way to the indignation I felt—for you must own I had ample cause, I might have dropped something about not being mate " the victim of unparalleled plunder" and " wholesale robbery." Instead of handing me over the two bundles, he came round the counter to show fight. Every man has a right to protect his own person—every man has a right to use his umbrella when attacked. I did only that which every mars has a right to do ; I did no more than every Englishman would have done. A boy was called to prove the assault. The complainant asked him if it warn't a regular whop he received from Higgs. It warn't exacly a regular whop, raid the boy, nor was it a rum'un, but it was what I should call a tidy crack. The " tidy crack" testimony turned the scales in favour of the complainant, and Mr. Higgs was fined ss. and costs. amounting to 9s. MENtouts OF JOSEPH HOLT, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798, edited from his original M S., by T. C. Croker, Esq., 2 vols. (Colburn.) This is a remarkable piece of autobiography, teeming with romantic and painful in cident, though not altogether unmixed with consolatory ,re flections. To the fatalist, perhaps, these pages may seem to offer a strong illustration in support of his favourite doc trine—a doctrine to which the hero of these adventures himself appears to have been somewhat inclined. Without pretending to discuss the question, however, we must certainly admit that if Holt's account of himself be correct, which substantially we have no doubt it is, he was an extraordinary instance of a most loyal, industrious, and inoffensive man, made a rebel of against his will by the force of cruel fortune.—Morning chronicle. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH, &c., 2 VOLS., (CoLnuass.)-- This is one of those books which are sure to please—showing us a Sovereign and her courtiers in their undress. In these volumes we have letters from Queen Anne, who had a great memory and a great appetite ; from the Duke of Msrlborough, who seems to have loved his wife (rare virtue !) better than glory or money ; from the Earl of Peterborough, who flattered quite as well as he fought ; from, Lord Sunderland, who was a Court politician; from Dr. Hare, who seems to have rather had rather more political philosophy than most of his curse . spondents, including the renowned Sal hers e lf, t o w h om h e tells some not very flattering truths ; from Mr. Maynwaring, who had in his time a great reputation as a talker, and who wrote very pretty letters ; and from various other gallant, say, and great persons of the reign of the good Queen Anne. JAIL BROKEN.—Thursday morning a prisoner, sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at hard labour, was let out into the court as usual to his work at knapping stones, and by breakfast time, he was nowhere to be seen. Thous h his escape was considered mysterious, it seemed most pro bable that he had got over the wall, which is twenty-five feet high. By what means he effected his purpose is unknown to all except a fellow-prisoner who was in the court at the time, but who is unwilling to give any information on the subject. A meeting of the Jail Commissioners has been held since, when Mr. Hill, the Government Inspector of Jails, suggested that there might he made a few lasge iron cages, wherein to accommodate such stone knappers as cannot be detained by ordinary means.—Scots Times. " friend B--," said a waggish Quaker to an ex- Magistrate t'other day, " why is it that the renegades of the Council are likened unto stink-puts ?" The Bailie only an swered with an umph and a smile. " I perceive thou art puz zled, friend," rejoined Broadbrim; "then I will tell thee ; it is because every honest citizen turns up his nose at them." " And by the same token," said B , laughing, " every honest citizen smells a rat." " Yea, verily," said Broadbrim, "it is eYen 30. And rats and stinkpots now are all the go." PR I Z E CU P S.—New and Second-hand SILVER PRIZE CUPS are offered at very Reduced Prices, and swlectiou may be made from a great variety, both of Sizes and Patterns, at. 'l'. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill London. A Sheet of Drawings of Cups will be forwarded 11 post, as a single letter, in answer to a post-paid application. 11157'115. On the 3d inst., at North Shields, the lady of A. J. Freire Mar rec.:), Esq., of a daughter. On the sth inst., Mrs. Luke Freeman, of Guildford -street, of a so l. On the sth inst., Mrs. John Fred. Bowman, of a son. On the 4th inst., in York place, Portman-square, the lady of 11. M. Boodle, Esq., of a daughter. OM the Ist inst., Mrs. Wm. Horsley, of Berner-street, Commer cial-rood, East, of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., Peter, youngest son of the late Major nouns( B. P. Hardy, Royal Artillery, to Harriett, youngest (laughter of the late Major-General Charles C. Campbell, of Barbreek, in Ar gyleehire. On the 4th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, J. M. Cottle, Esq., Of Leamington, Warwickshire, to Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of H. L. Cooper, Esq., of Trafalgar-square, Queen's elms, Bromptoo. On the 2d inst., at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, Mr. John Price, of Manchester, to Mary Walsh, second daughter of the late James Emmett, Esq , of Halifax, and widow of Mr. Charles Walsh, of the same place- On the 4th inst., at Welwyn Church, the Rev. J. Lovett Ca meron, A.M., to Frances, third daughter of Francis Sapte, Esq.' of Codicate Lodge, Hertfordshire. On the sth inst., at St. James's Church Westminster, William Irvine, Esq., advocate, Aberdeen, to :Margaret, eld e st daughter , Hugh Garden, Esq., of Piccadilly. On the Ist inst. at Southwick, Georg e O rre d , E sq., o f P rame re r Cheshire, to Matilda, daughter of Thos. Thestlethwayte, Esq., ° f Southwick Park, Hants. On the 4th inst., at Cricket St. Thomas, Somersetshire, Yong° Hugh Holbeeh, Esq., eldest son of W. Holbech, Esq., Farnborougli , Warwickshire, to the Hon. Jane Sarah Hood, daughter of til. Right Hon. Lord and Laly Bridport. On the 2d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square. the Rev. E - ward Payne. Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Vicar of Svy 3- 'cliff°, Oxon, to Margaretta, second daughter of the late Christophe r Cooke, Esq., of Eastend House, Ha...ts. DIED. At Paris, Dec. 18, after a few days' illness, Mrs. Ellis Ccrnrli‘ Knight, aged 80, for many years preeeptress to Her Royal High' ness the late Princess Charlotte. In London, on the 4!li inst., aged 38, Sarah, wife of Mr. Nethersole, of Kingston, Jamaica, merchant On the 4th 'inst., at Castle-c o tta ge , F arn h am, F anny, f • vgtf u Caidaiii 11. L. 'Lewis. On the Ist inst., at Holt, Caroline, wife of the Rev. J. V ' f ' Flavell, Rector of Stody and H unwor th , an d daughter of the lat e A. Au'rere, Esq., of lioveton-bouse, Norfolk. On the 3d inst., aged 74, Thos. Lea, Esq., of Henley-in Arde, ll ; , On the sth inst at Canonbury, I s li ngton, age d 38, Eli za , t" wife of the Rev, W. Thompson, M.A., Minister of St. Barnabai Church, King-square, Goswell-road. OS, At the Rectory, West Dean, Wilts, on th e 4 t h i nst., age d - Georgiana Sarah, daughter of the late Rev. W. Brown, Prebol' Mary of Canterbury. On the 4th inst., at Kentish-1 - mm, aged 3, William Wood, " I I child \V. J. A. Abington, Esq., M. A., of Lincoln's Inn-fl° 4l6 ' barrister-at-law. Lately, at Bath, Richard Williams, eldest son of Captain Chat''' . pion, Royal Navy. On the Ist inst., at Hurst House, Berks, aged 98, Jane, r elict ° I the late John Wowen, Esq. pt.! London: Printed and Published by !UMW° YOUNG, of ".tii 112, Stra n d, a t Th e S un Offi ce , No. 11`). Strand, in the 00 -1 " ( f IViddlesex.—Monday, January, 8, ltie.a.